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Are You Better Than Me? Competitive Work Climates Fuel Impostorism via Upward Social Comparisons

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Social Psychological and Personality Science

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Abstract

Social Psychological and Personality Science, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 510-521, May 2026.
The impostor phenomenon refers to an experience whereby individuals believe that others overestimate their abilities, prompting fears of being exposed as impostors. Research has predominantly conceptualized impostorism as a trait-based phenomenon and ...